Warm Bodies

by Isaac Marion

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A zombie who yearns for a better life ends up falling in love with a human, in this original debut novel. R is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He doesn't enjoy killing people; he enjoys riding escalators and listening to Frank Sinatra. He is a little different from his fellow Dead. Not just another zombie novel, this is funny, scary, and deeply moving.… (more)

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I am not a fan of zombie books, shows, anything, but this was really great. It was funny and dark and gross but still happy. There is a second coming out next year. I can't wait. (

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CaitlinDaugherty | Aug 28, 2023 |

This book was oddly sweet. There are very few books where the zombie tells the story from his point of view, so there you go. Well written, and had me not wanting to put it down. Actually, it is one of those that I read, and the next couple books will not even compare. Oddly, after seeing a picture of the author, I pictured him as R rather easily.

I can't wait to read the sequel. (

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LinBee83 | Aug 23, 2023 |

Warm bodies is a unique look into the mind of a zombie. Isaac has cleverly crafted a romance and horror fantasy. an enjoyable read though it had its dull moments. (

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Enchanten | Mar 12, 2023 |

CW: Zombie sex scene, gore, mother runs off to commit death by zombie infection. (

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Mrs_Tapsell_Bookzone | Feb 14, 2023 |

I grabbed this for a lark and ended up really impressed. I wouldn’t have expected a zombie apocalypse novel to have so much introspection and emotion, and the writing was quite good. The audio version gave the narration a Dexter-like quality that I’m not sure would have been there otherwise, but it was a nice bonus.
I’m sure this isn’t the only book with a zombie narrator, but I thought it was creative, original, and incredibly charming. (

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Harks | Dec 17, 2022 |

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Isaac Marion	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Dessaigne, Christophe	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Kenerly, Kevin	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Perr, Janet	Cover designer	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Watanabe, Kyoko	Designer	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Epigraph

You have known, O Gilgamesh,/
What interests me,/
To dink form the Well of Immortality./
Which means to make the dead/
Rise from their graves/
And the prisoners from their cells/
The sinners from their sins./
I think love's kiss kills our heart of flesh./
It is the only way to eternal life,/
Which should be unbearable if lived/
Among the dying flowers/
And the shrieking farewells/
Of the outstretched arms of our spoiled hopes.
- Herbert Mason
Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative

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- The Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet II, lines 147, 153, 154, 278, 279

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For the foster-kids I've met.

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I'm dead, but it's not so bad.

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My friend 'M' says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.

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A zombie who yearns for a better life ends up falling in love with a human, in this original debut novel. R is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He doesn't enjoy killing people; he enjoys riding escalators and listening to Frank Sinatra. He is a little different from his fellow Dead. Not just another zombie novel, this is funny, scary, and deeply moving.

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The narrator of Warm Bodies is a zombie inhabiting a post-apocalyptic America that has been destroyed by decades of wars and natural disasters, culminating in a mysterious zombie plague. The narrator has no memory of who he is and no understanding of what it means to be alive or undead, he has only the first letter of his name ("R") and a vague notion that something is not right with the world. While eating a young man's brain and experiencing his memories, R encounters the man's girlfriend, Julie, and makes the impulsive choice to save her instead of killing her. He takes her back to the abandoned airport where the zombies congregate and hides her in a 747, all the while narrating in a dry sense of humor. He falls in love with her and slowly comes back to life which then sparks something into all the "corpses" changing them back to human.

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